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Show WW"A"WWMWAWAWAWAWWi .. i i .i i i i IBJ,"V " i"T .'!!'?'' ' ' " - HELPFUL MOABWAYSj Thoy woro on tholr way homo at 2 a. m. As thoy turned Into their own qulot cross town stroot after leaving tho cars Mrs. Broadway sighed wearily. "Dear mo," sho said, "how glad I am to got near homo onco more, but how very lonely It sooms around hero. I don't boliovo thoro Is a soul abroad oxcopt ourselves." Broadway looked sharply up nnd down tho street "Yes, thoro Is," ho snld. "Thoro Is a woman ringing tho doorbell at tho houso across tho street Sho soems to bo having trou-bio trou-bio to got In." Tho apparently forlorn condition of tho past-midnight prowler touched n sympathetic chord in Mrs. Broadway's bosom. Sho had boon locked out her-solf her-solf on several occasions, and know how It went "Tho poor thing," sho Blghod. "Let's o over and ask hor if wo can bo of any assistance to her." Tho woman on tho doorstop gavo tho boll another push as sho saw thom approach, then turnod and faced thorn. "I'm in a torrlblo fix," sho said, helplessly. "I havo no koy and this boll seems to bo broken, nnd I can't mako anybody hear, and I don't know how In tho world I am over going to got In." Mr. Broadway reached over tho tono balustrado to tho front window. "I think," ho snld, "thoro may bo a way. I think I may bo ablo to boost you In through tho front window. I am suro I can if that window is not latched." Ho pressed upward on tho sash and tho window roso slowly and with a slightly crenking sound. "It is all right," ho said, and pushod still hard-or. hard-or. "Now," ho said, whon tho apora-turo apora-turo had assumod proportions com-monsurato com-monsurato with tho anatomical structure struc-ture of tho woman, "If you can brldgo tho chasm you will bo all right." "Oh, I can do that easy enough," said tho woman. "I can crawl in, I am suro." , " ( "Vory well," said Broadway, "horo ',' goes." It required consldorahlo reaching - ,, . , and scrambling on tho part of tho- f, woman and much lifting and balancing balanc-ing on the part of Mr. Broadway, but tho passago through tho window was finally effected and tho woman landed on a soft rug inside. "I'm oafo," sho whispered. "Thanks, ' over so much." Thon sho closed the window. i Tho Broadways hurriedly descended ' , tho stops. "What number Is this?" sho asked whon sho reached tho street "Did you notlco?" "Ono hundred and eighteen," ho said. Mrs. Broadway was tho first to boo tho sequel to their samaritanism in tho evening paper. "No. 118118," sho said, wonder-Ingly, wonder-Ingly, "Why, that Is whero wo helped tho woman In through tho window last night, wasn't it, Jasper?" "Yes," said Broadway. "What about it?" "She sho lied," panted Mrs. Broadway. Broad-way. "Sho mado that up about living in tho houso. Nobody lives thero that Is, nobody was homo last night. Everybody Is away In tho country. , , Even tho servant In charge happonod to be away last night and that woman wom-an know it. Shesho wns a thief. Sho must havo had accomplices. A llttlo woman Hko her could novor havo got away with all tho stuff tho papers I say sho took. It all comes of your n lifting her In through tho window. H Tho Idea of a man of your ago lifting- a stra'ngo woman, anyway! I didn't n approvo of It at tho tlmo, but I didn't U Hko to say anything; you aro always I so apt to accuno mo of being jealous U every tlmo I open my head about such a things. But sho certainly wa3 jg smooth." H Broadway read tho account of tho 5 robbory gravely. "We'll bo in luck," K ho said, "if tho authorities do not light on us as her accomplices." |